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it's all in how you say it.
it's all in how you say it. i pick up accents like a picks up ticks. when i lived in england for a while, i came home with all the idiomatic phrases and a spiffy little accent. my brothers kicked that loose in five minutes. if i'm talking to someone, i tend to drift into their speech pattern. it isn't intentional and i suppose it may be offensive but it's not meant to be. i have a delicious friend from hawaii and as soon as she's with me i go all hawli on her and she has to slap me a few times to stop me. the end result is that i don't sound like i come from anywhere. which, since i hale from bahstin is not a bad thing because a bahstin accent is just wretched. flat, broad and makes you sound pretty stoopid. anyhoo, the other day i was leading a public hearing on homelessness and i was sort of noting who sounded like what while i was waiting for the next person to speak. i rose to read a letter from an absentee presenter. the letter was heartfelt and very well written. at one point, he told a story about a family that had lost everything and ended up in their car in his driveway. his last few lines were an irish proverb "tada gan iarracht" nothing without effort. i had read it with a brogue. not intentionally but when you read gaelic, it's hard not to go with the music of the language. i repeated his words, nothing without effort. and my colleagues, spontaneously stood in this public forum amid politicians and police and who all. and one by one, they all said, nothing without effort. it was a moment. different voices. i knew every single one. i loved every single one. i continued, with a catch in my voice and asked the next speaker to come forward. i'm glad it wasn't me. it would be like following robin williams as a brand new comic, yanno? oh, and we made the paper. grins. a moment of solidarity from providers as they commit to servicing the homeless. jeeze, it felt good. You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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Massachusetts is the only part of the country that doesn't have an accent.
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I got an accent,,,,but I'm not homeless yet. ---------------------Dennis US ARMY (RETIRED) AND YOUR FRIEND I never mean to offend(blog or comment) anyone ,If I do contact me please. Please check out my blog Harley-Davidson Drive(19harley86)
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. ~~ from Antony & Cleopatra
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You're amazing--no matter what language you're speaking! Never ignore those who care for you you will have lost diamonds while you were collecting stones
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Yaaaaaay wickedeasy!
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Don't you love those moments... the moments when people rise as one,,, to make you think that the world maybe isn't as fucked up as you think it is?
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I have a terrible ear for language (been trying to learn French forever, to no avail) but used to have a great ear for accents. I could slip into a full Pittsburgh, or Memphis Drawl, or Minnesota yah youbetcha easily; I stopped doing so the more I traveled as it seemed to me that I would appear to be mocking those I was imitating. Now I'm so half-deaf, I struggle to follow a conversation in a noisy room. Yeah for you, WE! Chas
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What a wonderful high for you. Great blog share.
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I used to have an accent--talked like a Californian. It's faded out over time, just like California's faded out. Now... I just don't talk; whilst the rest of the Californians are gettin' to sound just like OWSers... even the [ones] who don't agree with OWS. It confusing. I need to move to South Dakota--the Chief says he'll teach me how to be an Injun. But I know I'll never get the accent quite right. Solar...
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Rarely is that ever offensive if at all, unless you grossly exaggerate the speech/mannerisms. Picking up accents/cadences/vocal qualities/words and phrases creates rapport and is a great technique if you're in sales. John Lee Hooker Recommended: [blog lucyjane78]
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I love accents too. It would be great to be a fly on the wall watching you do your thing. Lucky gal. Oh, now that I'm here in the real south (lol)...we'uns here likes to call our buds pardner...ya'll come back now, ya hear! (Uh, no...I don't talk like that...yet...give me a few more years.)
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